Both sides of Indiana's same-sex marriage issue have reason to follow court action

9:20 PM,
Dec. 10, 2012

Greg Zoeller, Indiana's Attorney General, talks to voters on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2012, as they wait in line to cast their ballots at the City/County Building. Zoeller said Dec. 10, 2012, that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up the controversial issue of same-sex marriage is an opportunity to settle an important matter that affects every state's ability to define marriage.

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The Supreme Court's decision to jump headlong into the same-sex marriage debate is being welcomed in Indiana, even by observers with opposing views.

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says the court's decision Friday to take up two cases on the issue is an opportunity to settle an important matter that affects every state's ability to define marriage.

"With all due respect to those who have called for a truce from conflict on social issues," Zoeller said in a statement released by his office Monday, "this is a legal question of central importance in our national that only the United States ...